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BAY AREA REPORTER 



Volume 5 Number 1 
January 9, 1975 



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SOCIAL COMMENTARY 


In This Issue: 

THE 10th ANNUAL 
CORONATION BALL 
MEET DORIS X 
by 

G. Ashley Martinson 

FEATHER & LEATHER FOLLIES 
by 

Donald McLean 

THE TOWERING INFERNO 
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN 
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE 
GODFATHER PART II 
THE LITTLE PRINCE 
by 

Montezuma 

A NEW COLUMN: VIEWPOINT ~ 
LETTER TO A DYING FRIEND 
by 

Bob Matthews 

DOCTOR SOLOMON’S EASY 
NO-RISK DIET 
by 

J.D. Miller 


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by Harvey Mflk 

The economy...unemployment... 
recession... .inflation, .etc., has captured 
the headline from Watergate. We hear 
this expert first and next, that expert. 
We hear this economist and then the 
next. We hear politicians from all 
spectrums of philosophy, giving opin¬ 
ions of what has to be done to solve the 
problems. Yet not one of the statements 
has anything to do with what causes 
these problems. All seem only inter¬ 
ested in solving the immediate crisis and 
not the underlining problem. For to go 
after the real problem, we need 
leadership and not voter appeal. 

Our economic problem stems from 
too much governmenf spending with 
too little return from all that spending. In 
order to return to wise government 
spending, we get suggestions about 
cutting this program or that program. 
All piddling cuts. No one...no one, not 
even the “true” liberals ever suggest the 
easiest way to cut unproductive govern¬ 
ment spending. Bring back our troops 
from overseas! They don’t mention this 
sacred cow, for we have spent 
generations telling ourselves how vital 
our troops are to protect America. Do 
we really think that all those troops in 
Germany are defending our shoreline? 
Or, are our overseas troops really to 
protect the huge, investments of 
American private industry? 

What happens if the troops are 
brought home? First, our balance of 
payments immediately switches from 
one of a large deficit to a surplus. 
Second, the cost of our large overseas 
budget is cut to zero. Third, the 
enormous amount of oil used by our 
overseas troops and the sending of men 
and supplies back and forth across 
oceans, is cut to zero, greatly lowering 
America’s total oil consumption. 
Fourth, the total size of our armed 
forces is reduced, lowering our defense 
budget. And, fifth, those mustered out 
of the services, will enter private 
industry, adding to the productive work 
force, increasing total production of 
goods. 


An Economic Move to World Peace 

It would mean more goods pro¬ 
duced - exactly what the president calls 
for. It would mean greater demand for 
goods, since more people would be 
living and working here. It would mean 
more people adding to the tax base. It 
would mean that our leaders would 
have to accept the fact that American 
troops would no longer “protect” the 
world and our overseas investments. It 
jvould mean that our generals would 
have to rely on modern technology to 
defend the nation. It would mean that 
our national leaders would have to rely 
on diplomacy. It would mean that we 
might then be able to afford help for 
other nations in the world which are 
without means of industry and food. It 
might even mean true roads to peace. 
The Alternative 

On the other hand, if the economic 
problems got worse, we might end up 
with a depression where there just 
would not be enough funds to maintain 
the overseas troops anyway! In that 
case, they would be brought home to a 
nation in serious economic trouble. 
They would not be able to find work. 
They would add to the troubles, 
compounding the problem. In short, 
more chaos. And, all in the name of 
having to remain firm in our false 
assumption that we are going to defend 
the world...like we did in Viet Nam... 
like we have done in the Middle 
East...like we did in Hungry. 

Much of this comes from the 
macho attitude of our leaders. They 
cannot admit that they shed tears. So 
they allow people to go broke...to 
starve..to die..all in the name of being 
manly enough to defend our Republic. 

It might take a lot of humility to 
admit that there is little real need of 
maintaining our overseas troops. Doing 
so could help solve the nation’s 
economic problems. It would just take 
to admitting that we were wrong. It 
might start to solve some of the world’s 
problems. It just will take true leadership 
instead of political leadership. 


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10th Annual Coronation Ball 


It’s Doris X 


It was no surprise to the almost one 
thousand who gathered in the Gold 
Room of the Sheraton-Palace Hotel on 
January 4th, when after a clarion 
trumphet fanfare, retiring Empress 
Frieda IX, announced that her suc¬ 
cessor would be the young and 
attractive DORIS. 

Shortly after the doors opened at 
7:30 P.M., visiting courts from all over 
the west began their procession to the 
throne where Empress FRIEDA IX 
received their homage as a parting 
salute to a successful year’s reign. Some 
brought gifts, others brought love and 
extended well wishes as they tradition¬ 
ally kissed the royal ring. 

As new guests arrived, the pro¬ 
cession got longer and longer and while 
we are not sure that some made their 
presence felt more than once, the long 
line of costumes and endless presen¬ 
tations soon became a bore. 

No spectacle such as this can 
adhere to a schedule, and neither did 
this Tenth Coronation of the Empress 
de San Francisco, since it was midnight 
before the disclosure of the name of the 
new Empress was announced and her 
investiture commenced at the throne. It 
was programmed for 11:15 P.M. 

Instantaneously with the an¬ 
nouncement of the name of DORIS, a 
super-loud fanfare of Imperial trumpets 
filled the room and the huge double 
ornate white and gold portal of the 
ballroom opened revealing DORIS, 
resplendant in soft yellow satin, with a 
train bordered by a large tufted rolled 
hem. Escorting her to the throne, was 
President of the San Francisco Tavern 
Guild Foundation - Richard Gersbach - 
sponsors of the Annual Coronation 
ceremonies. 

It was with a great deal of difficulty 
that Doris was able to make her way to 
the throne. Her many enthusiastic 
supporters and friends crowded too 
close to the stage and blocked her 
orderly assent up the stairs. Cheers and 
applause reached the highest decibel 
when, as the first order of investiture, 
Dowager' Empress JOSE I, placed the 
cloak of state around the new Empress’ 
shoulders proclaiming it to be “sig- 
nificent of the lands of her realrr^ 



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Empress X Doris poses with the COITS 


encompassing not only San Francisco, 
but the Farallon Island and protectress 
of Mexico.” Ever conscious of the 
tangent on which the coronation can 
drift, JOSE I raised a hand for silence 
and cautioned “The whole thing started 
with me ten years ago as a camp, and it 
must be continued that way.” These 
words of advice and caution brought a 
thunderous applause signifying ap¬ 
proval from the audience. 

Members of the Privy Council 
which comprises former Empresses and 
other titled persons, brought forth the 
Septre, the Orb, the State Ring, the 
Flowers and finally, the State Crown, 
which, with great difficulty, was pre¬ 
cariously placed on Doris’ magnificently 
coiffured head. 


As soon as all of the accouterments 
were bestowed upon EMPRESS DORIS 
X, she ascended the throne to a 
standing ovation which continued for 
more than ten minutes after which she 
read her first proclamation, making 
FRIEDA IX a dowager Empress and a 
member of the Privy Council. 

The second most enthusiastic 
applause was for Senator Milton Marks, 
who with Mrs. Marks, entered the 
ballroom and walked about the tables 
shaking hands with the crowd. Senator 
Marks is a candidate for Mayor of San 
Francisco and has long been an 
identifiable friend of the gay com¬ 
munity. 

Breaking up the intense business of 
receiving lines, presentations and the 














Princesses of each of the other 
competing candidates who were again 
presented to the crowd, which now 
began to diminish. Most of the heads of 
state and courts from other realms 
proceeded to the throne to greet San 
Francisco’s newly elected and crowned 
EMPRESS DORIS X. Long Live The 
Empress. 

by G. Ashley Martinson 


The Privy Council - Empress I Jose, Empress 11 Bella, Empress IV Keba, Empress 
V Willis & Empress VIII Maxine. 


investiture, was a half-time show 
produced by KIMO, which proved to be 
less than professionally presented. It 
was supposed to be a spoof of the 
Dowager Empresses, but this idea did 
not come across to the audience which 
was more intent on getting a waiter or 
getting to the bar. Most persons in the 
audience to whom I spoke would have 
preferred a genuine intermission which 
they could have used to make their way 
to the bar, since the table service was up 
to par for most of our local prestige 
hotels. 

Among its many fine efforts in the 
community which are worthwhile, and 
some profitable, the Tavern Guild 
Foundation might conduct seminars 
among the catering and beverage 
managers of the prestige hotels and 
restaurants and teach them the fine art 
of adequately and graciously serving 
their customers on these special oc¬ 
casions. At this particular function, the 
Sheraton-Palace could have doubled its 
bar receipts and even made friends with 
an entire new segment of San 
Francisco’s diverse party-giving com¬ 
munity. 

While we’re at it, it is in order here 
to mention that one travel-spotlight 
three hundred feet away, is hardly 
adequate to light up entrances and 
procession to the throne, the activities 
on the throne, while alternately trying to 
illuminate the announcer, the reigning 
Empress, and the emblem of the Court 
of San Francisco. Any number less than 
three such lights would have been 
inadequate. 


Signalling each entrance was the 
well balanced tapes of symphonic 
music, rich in processional pomp and 
pagentry, accented by fanfares and 
drum rolls, all prepared and cued by 
Mr. Ralph Rotten. 

A second proclamation by 
EMPRESS DORIS X made Royal 


Doris’ plurality of 448 votes, with 
Fat Fairy almost half as many with 272, 
indicated a decided mandate for 
Empress Doris. 

Placing third was Billie, with 179 
and La Kish, a close 4th place, with 
171. 




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Meet Doris X 


It was a bitter cold day in Racine, 
Wisconsin on December 13tH, 1945, 
when Ray Gustafson was born. World 
War II was winding down and 
employment was at an all time high. 
Papa Gustafson, along with his other 
sons, helped keep the snow drifts from 
the house so friends and relatives could 
come to see the third son born to these 
parents of strong Swedish stock. 

Ray attended the usual public high 
school in Racine and upon graduation 
entered Northwestern University in 
Evanston, Illinois, where he majored in 
Business Administration with emphasis 
on accounting. 

After leaving college, Ray settled in 
Chicago with a lucrative position for 
one of the country’s major corporations. 
After a few years in the Windy City, Ray 
decided to accept a meaningful assign¬ 
ment with a world famous banking 
organization in San Francisco, where he 
became a part of its accounting and tax 
staff, at their San Francisco World 
Headquarters. 

In Sari Francisco, Ray soon 
became known as Doris. The genuine 
resemblence to a famous popular singer 


Doris - Empress X 

and the sweet simplicity and even 
temper identified Ray Gustafson as 
Doris. Ray even adopted the daisy and 
the freckles on his blond complexion as 
a hallmark of his identity. 

Doris was invited by Michelle to 
appear with him in Anything Goes and 
since that time has been an afficianado 
of local amature theatre. Along with 
Irene and Peter Puffer, Doris founded 


Ray Gustafson [AKA Doris 1 

the now famous Community Softball 
League, which last year defeated the 
Police Softball team in a charity event 
for the P.A.L. 

Doris is currently unattached and 
lives with a roommate on Nob Hill. 
Besides accounting, he has many 
talents, one of which is that he designed 
and made the exquisite satin gown he 
wore at the coronation on January 4th, 
1975, acclaiming him DORIS X 
Empress de San Francisco. 

Doris was unanimously the winner 
in a field of seven candidates vying for 
the honor and title which is bestowed by 
the local community from the Bay Area 
counties. The disclosure of his name as 
the winner resulted in total acceptance 
and approval of the thousand guests 
attending the coronation. 

Diverse in his hobbies and past- 
times, Doris enjoys football and attends 
the San Francisco Symphony regularly. 

Doris is a Sagittarius and as such, 
promises to be a factor in everybody’s 
life with whom he comes in contact. 
,The motto during his campaign was: 
There’s a New Day Coming and already 
he expresses a desire to be instrumental 
in bringing together the diverse person¬ 
alities of the community. “I agree with 
JOSE I, that this whole thing is a camp 
and we must not take our titles too 
seriously, while dedicating ourselves to 
the necessary work at hand for the good 
of the community - with fun in total 
camp.” 

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Attention Please 


Perhaps there were some who 
thought that the banners behind the 
throne were decorations for a one-time 
use, whereas these are the banners and 
pennants of the various Empresses 
and Czarinas of the San Francisco 
Court. 

Therefore, will the person or 
persons who took these banners as 
souvenirs, please return them to the 
Tavern Guild. The persons to whom 
they belong need them for such 


occasions when royal decorations are in 
order. PLEASE. 

Also, inadvertantly, someone has 
taken the full length coat of possom fur 
trimmed with red fox, of Carol Lynn, 
which was left in the “holding room” or 
“gathering room” for entertainers and 
courts, while she was on stage 
entertaining the guests. Will you please 
examine your fur coat and see, if by 
chance you have taken. another by 
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Letter To A 
Dying Friend 

by Bob Matthews 

Impossible. My head was spinning 
with ideas. Searching for an opening 
theme - or, at least, an -opening line - 
but nothing! I took a puff on the last 
Viceroy, fondled the crushed pack, sat 
back and tried reason: “It’s the first 
column. Comes hard. Relax.” I did. 
Nothing. Decided to take my mind off it 
and write a letter to a dying friend. 

☆ ☆ ☆ 

Dear New York City, 

Here I am. You were right. San 
Francisco is not Utopia. Close. But not 
quite. However, you could learn much 
from your Sister City. 

Friendly place this City on the Bay. 
You lied! People try harder at friend¬ 
liness here. Seems that way. Smaller 
city than expected. Cleaner too. Can 
seethe sky. Breathe. People smile. Say 
strange things like: Good Morning. 
Thank you. Hello. Shocked me at first 
but making quick adjustment. Pace is as 
refreshing as the air. Think I’ve found a 
new home. 

I’m a homosexual. Gay. Re¬ 
member? Well, this is the place. You 
once spread your cloak of anonymity 
over me. Could forget. Be myself. 
Many of my gay brothers and sisters 
came leaping onto your island Man¬ 
hattan seeking that shelter. That’s the 
way it was. Once. Find your ghetto. 
Build a wall. But the wall is down. The 
Stonewall, remember? In San Francisco 
they remember. The wall is gone. Gay 
is getting there. 

The bars here have much to offer. 
The bars also have many gimmicks. 
Confusing sometimes. Buttons. Con¬ 
tests. Door Prizes. Titles: Mr This, Miss 
That, Queen This, Queen That. What 
do they do? Have to find out. Must ask 
them. Oh...must sell crates of jocks in 
this town. Unusual bar attire. Fun 
though. Draws a crowd. How bad can 
that be? Some call these gimmicks 
simply rip-offs. Maybe. Guess they 
haven’t been to visit you recently. Point 
is, they provide something in the area of 
social intercourse. They’re not merely 
mating grounds. People actually talk at 
these functions. Make friends. Strange. 


Bars here close at 2 AM. Period. 
New Year’s Eve no exception. 2 AM. 
Sort of interesting though. People go 
out earlier in the evening. Get it earlier. 
Get home earlier. Look refreshed on 
the.streets the next day. Interesting. 
Never seemed to leave the apartment 
before midnight in Manhattan. Did you 
squeeze too hard? 

Funny thing here. They do some¬ 
thing crazy and I don’t like it. Give 
awards to people who earn their rep¬ 
utation by being a bitch. Give Spoons. 
Wonder if they reward those who lift the 
human spirit. Do acts out of kindness, 
truth, love. They must. Too beautiful an 
environment this city. It must stir one’s 
nature to gifts of compassion. It must. 
Will have to find out. 

Been meaning to write to you 
about your health. Too bad. Terminal. 
Some thirty years my head was pressed 
against your concrete bosom. Heartbeat 
grew fainter each year. Escaped me. 
Lost the patient. Have a new one now. 
Some natives tell me they hear a 
murmur in the heart of their city with the 
twin peaks. The pulse is weak along 
Market Street. Dead-out in the Tender¬ 
loin. I don’t know. But that’s what they 
say. 

This is my final letter. Will be 
writing a column in a local publication. 
Will use my true name: Bob Matthews. 
After all, that’s who I am. Column is 
called VIEWPOINT. The point of view 
will be mine. Since there is much to 
view and some points to make, all my 
energy must go to my new home. New 
faces. New friends. 


Farewell and forgive, 
Love, Bob 



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To Diet or 
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DOCTOR SOLOMON’S EASY, NO- 
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There has been much talk about 
diet. As a study, it is only about 120 
years old, yet hardly a year passes 
without at least one big, new faddish 
diet. Some years, two or three books 
make brief appearances, each being 
big best-sellers. This diet or that diet, 
in turn, makes dieting easy as falling 
off a log. For some diets, a little effort 
must be made, calories must be 
counted, or carbohydrates. But, says 
Dr. Neil Solomon, the basis of any fad 
diet is still the basic and original diet 
first proposed 120 years ago, and 
varied but slightly, now one way, now 
another way. 

On a recent nationwide tour 


publicizing his new book, Dr. 
Solomon was interviewed in a San 
Francisco hotel by various members of 
the press. Since writing is a sedentary 
occupation most of the time, there 
were few candidates present for a 
body beautiful contest. And writers 
are such natural hypochondriacs, that 
the interview was lively and clinical. 
After all, who can resist telling a 
qualified specialist in obeisity about 
illness and maybe getting a free 
diagnosis. 

Dr. Solomon is both a medical 
doctor and a psychologist. He has 
worked and taught at John Hopkins 
Hospital and School of Medicine. He 
has experimented with obesity and 
metabolic problems. He also happens 
to be Maryland’s Secretary of State for 
Health. 

At the very beginning of the 
interview, Dr. Solomon gave a quick 
rundown of the fad diets. The main 
thing he stressed is that everyone 
needs all types of food intake. A 
proper diet includes regulated por¬ 
tions and is never the type of diet 
which excludes a whole type of 


sustenance. If, on the Drinking Man’s 
Diet, you could have all the alcohol 
you wanted, the best thing that could 
be said for that was that eventually it 
made you sleep, and you could not 
easily eat in your sleep. It was bound 
to be a little hard on the liver, so 
grapefruit juice was substituted for 
alcohol, but the rest of it was still the 
same old diet. 

It only takes people a little while 
to wise up to the fad diets. So the diet 
-experts go back and forth, think up 
new names like the Mayo Diet, until 
the Mayo Clinic blew the whistle. 
Then Dr. Stillman said you could 
drink all the plain old-fashioned water 
you wanted. High cholesterol diets 
unfortunately seemed to bring on 
heart problems. Yet, despite the Dr. 
Adkins Diet, the average person does 
require a balanced number of carbo¬ 
hydrates. A dieter would more likely 
make himself ill before he could ingest 
all the protein recommended daily by 
the Adkins Diet. 

The crux of the problem is that 
diets should be individually balanced 
to suit each dieter. Five percent of all 
fat persons, says Dr. Solomon, really 
have a basic metabolic problem. 95 
percent simply overeat. If you go on a 
diet and do not lose weight, you have a 
problem, you are not burning up your 
daily caloric intake. But you may also 
be one of the slim percent of persons 
who have thyroid or metabolic prob¬ 
lems. The body works and changes on 
its own. It adapts or fails to do so 
according to the work you make it do. 

It is always nice to have a fine 
healthy body. People owe it to 
themselves to make sure they function 
at peak level. Part of this cause for 
concern is tied in with the problem of 
aging, a problem which must be 
considered by everyone over thirty- 
five. From that age onward, the body 
shows a decrease in active cells, and 
these are replaced with fat. The brain 
becomes forgetful of recent events. 
Fat people have more heart attacks. 
Kidney malfunction comes, as does 
high blood preasure. Although the 
negative aspects of aging should be 
minimized and we should try to be as 
healthy as possible, we cannot but 
note that fat people die. while most of 
the older people we see around are the 
thin and wiry types. 

Each person who needs to diet 
has some sort of special problem 
which cannot be adequately answered 
by a fad or general diet. It is a small 
matter to consult a doctor, first off, to 


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time to time some of these may be sub¬ 
stituted for others. The body needs 55 
percent daily intake of carbohydrates. 
Alcohol is a fat with nine calories for 
each gram. 

Dr. Solomon’s book outlines his 
particular diet plan, to be undertaken 
after you find you have no real other 
sort of medical problem. He then goes 
on to give a special diet for the people 
he calls “carboholics,” a person who 
cannot handle sweets and are com¬ 
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take time to diet. For one of the big 
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trouble it takes to count your food 
intake, to realize exactly what and 
how much you are getting. 

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problems with other dieters. He 
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discussing what to do when the diet 
reaches a plateau and stalls. He 
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easy way to diet or get rid of weight, 
and the surgical approach, in the final 
analysis, is used only for the most 
serious cases and definately sounds 
more horrible than dieting. The great 
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of making dieting easy and attractive, 
considering all objections and phases, 
and even thinking of those who must 
diet to gain weight and those who, 
having lost weight, wish to keep it lost. 
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It’s been a long, long time since 
San Francisco’s Gay Community saw as 
lavish and extravagant a spread of 
exotic and taste-tempting food as was 
featured last Sunday at the *P.S. which 
was graciously entitled Doris says ‘thank 
you’ brunch. 

From Ambrosias, aspics and rel¬ 
ishes to whole lobsters, roast beef, 
oysters Rockefeller, prawns, chicken, 
ham and turkey, scrambled eggs, 
Alaskan King Crab, pork sausages, 
salads, and croissants and rolls, to name 
just a few of the exquisitely decorated 
buffet. 

Hundreds of well wishers made 
capitol of the extravagance of the Henry 
the VIII table of foods, which never 
stopped being replenished as waiters 
swept around the spacious dining room 
with mamouth silver platters of steam¬ 
ing hot Oysters Rockefeller and carafes 
of hot coffee. 

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Too seldom do we have an 
opportunity to see kindness in 
action. 


Too often do we take 
friendship too lightly. 

To all those who partici¬ 
pated in or contributed to the 
recent 

JULIE JORDAN BENEFIT 
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My thanks and friendship 
forever. 

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candles in silver candelabra. A picture 
to remember, as we slide into a period 
of austerity due to economic conditions. 
We can think of no better way for 
anyone to say “thank you” than by 


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By Lou Rand 

Little Fishes 

There was a time, not so long ago, 
when the homeshopper could buy a 
nice piece of fish at many large markets 
or even at the infrequent fish markets 
and not pay too great a price for it. 
Many people, possibly, ate and enjoyed 
fish because they liked it; not because it 
was less expensive. Well, to quote 
someone - times have changed... On 
iced trays, at our local fishmonger’s are 
hansome, thick salmon steaks, fillets of 
sole, slabs of meaty halibut; there’s rock 
cod, sea bass, snapper, and so on. All 
are marked FRESH. This means, most 
often, that they have been freshly 
thawed out; the salmon for example, 
may have been caught weeks before 
and over a 1000 miles to the north and 
west, and were most certainly frozen in 
transit. Look again at that price tag! 

$2.60/lb. Say, is this some kind of 
rip-off? That halibut, caught very 
probably right off So. Calif., at 
$2.30/lb. And the sole, which aren’t 
really sole at all, but more likely 
flounder, caught up near Monterey, 

$1.95/lb. And so with all the rest of it, 
with prices up near to current out¬ 
rageous good steak prices. And who 
can afford it? 

While at the fisherman’s, dare to 
take a fast look at the raw shrimp; 

$4.85/lb; at scallops, clams, oysters, 
and so on. & Don’t even ask about crab 
meat or abalone; the fish man has them 
in a safe, and reluctantly parts with 
small packets at prices you wouldn’t 
believe. Somehow, it’s scarey; and 
what do we do for fish? Those of us who 
like it? 

Somebody put us wise, and 
remembering all the wonderful crisp 
little fried fish we had eaten around the 
Mediterannean (like the biancetti at 
Genoa and Ligorno, etc.), all those 
years ago, we see what should have 
been apparent all the time. We buy 
SMALL FISH (6 to 8 inches long), such 
as herring, sprats , t smelt, jack-smelt, 
fingerlings, even some little fish sold as 
‘live bait.’ Any small fish, as long as they 
are fresh and lively. 


Preparation and cooking are 
simple. As soon as you can get them 
home, gut the fish with a small sharp 
knife. Best to remove outstanding fins; 
the head and tail may be left on, or not, 
as you like. We trim most of the tail, cut 
off the heads; but many do leave 'em 
on. Wash gutted fish in cold running 
water; if they to be held some hours 
before cooking, put them in a pan of 
cold water and hold in the fridge, 
though this will lose some of the flavor. 
In either case, pat the fish rather dry 
with towels. Dip thoroughly into: (1) 
plain flour, seasoned; (2) seasoned 
flour with some light crumbs; (3) in one 
of the Shake & Bake products. Heat fat 
to 375*. If, as is most possible, you 
have just fried potatoes, bring temp¬ 
erature of fat slowly back up; put a 
handful of the prepared little fish into 
the basket and deep-fry for less than 2 


min.- one minute if fish are quite small. 
Hold cooked fish, while frying more, on 
a platter in a barely hot 200* oven 
(door open), possibly with the potatoes 
also keeping hot. Note that this is also 
the way to cook those surprising 
California grunion, which run several 
times a year, and are to be scooped up 
free; though you’d better have a fishing 
license. 

These crisp little fried fish will go 
fast; cook twice as many as you think 
you’ll need. And, yes, you eat it all, 
including the soft bones. With potatoes 
and a big green salad, to go with the 
Little Fish, you’ve got a good and only 
moderately expensive meal. 

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Well, in this my last column for 
B.A.R., I would like to do mini-reviews 
of some of the current “Holiday” fare 
now playing around town that I was 
able to catch up with. Firstly, my 
holiday favorite is Young Frankenstein, 
a Mel Brooks film. Mr. Brooks has 
combined the zaniness of Blazing 
Saddles with the structure of Producers 


and has come up with a very funny 
movie. Rather than a take off on horror 
films, this is more of a tribute. We have 
all th6 basic characters in “stunning” 
black & white - the mad Dr. 
Frankenstein (played to the hilt by 
co-author & outrageous star, Gene 
Wilder); Igor the hunchback of Tran- 


tacle of Towering Inferno with its 
star-stud cast, Steve McQueen, Paul 
Newman, Richard Chamberlain, Robert 
Wagner, et al. For a flick of this type the 
acting was generally a cut above the 
usual reactions and I think much better 
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monster-creating in 1 
sylvania (a wild-eyed American film 
debut by England’s Marty Feldman); the 
sinister housekeeper ala Judith 
Anderson (a most amusing character 
role by the divine Cloris Leachman), 
and of course the “monster” itself, 
played with savoir faire by Peter Boyle. 
It’s madness ala Brooks and is quite 
hilarious. 

Also enjoyed the burn-em spec¬ 


of 

‘Young Frankenstein.” 

Adventure. The special effects are super 
and once you get used to the idea of a 
136 story building in downtown San 
Francisco, you are ready for anything 
thrown at you. 

Godfather Part II is probably 
destined to be a classic film together 
with the original Godfather. Part II is 
actually part I and part III with the 
original film sandwiched in between. If 



















Wagner, Astaire, Chamberlain, Newman, 
you like your drama on a low-key level 
with excellent acting all around, then 
Godfather II is where it’s at. I wasn’t a 
great fan of the original but this sequel 
succeeds in unraveling the saga of a 
simple Mafia family. 

Also around and should be caught: 
Phantom of the Paradise - a blend of 
horror, satire, rock and comedy. 
Stylishly produced and directed by 
Brian De Palma, the film combines the 
legend of Faust, Phantom of the Opera 
and the picture of Dorian Grey for an 
outrageous film with a great rock score 
by Paul Williams that works well for the 
film but I don’t think the music could 
stand alone too well. Paul Williams 


Holden, Dunaway, McQueen, Jones, Simpson & 
appears as a diabolic “Swan” and gives 
a meaty performance and there is a very 
campy glitter star named “Beef” played 
to the Nth degree by Gerrit Graham. 

Little Prince is the only holiday 
musical in town and not a very good 
one. It’s worth seeing although for the 
dance by Bob Fosse and the wonderful 
work of Gene Wilder as “the fox.” 

Well, my luvs, it’s been an 
interesting couple of years and I want to 
thank those faithful readers and also 
those who joined in the Montezuma 
Film Club held monthly at my home. 
Just remember to support the movies 
you enjoy by telling your friends about 
them and stay away from films of no 


Vaughn link arms against "The 

Towering Inferno.” 

virtue - although most films will be 
enjoyed by someone somewhere. Bye 

for now and tomorrow. 

Luv, Montezuma - at liberty. 


Peter Boyle - a different kind of monster. 


Al Pacino as the Godfather. 









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Seattle, Feather & Leather Follies, a 
benefit for PRIDE, was not a total loss. 
Darcelle of Portland scored heavily with 
a gimmicked version of Kate Smith’s 
God Bless America, and Roxie proved 
that a pleasing stage personality can 
sock across an energetic routine In an 
overlong Little Mary Sunshine spoof, 
Kim Chicester showed what genuine wit 
and clever narrative can do to bolster 
uneven material, with the Empress of 
Vancouver, Sandy St. Peters, gleaming 
as the one brightly shining genuinely 
talented performer who should consider 
a show biz career. But all of their 
contributions were fun, amusing and 
performed with high spirits. It was 
exceedingly nice of them to contribute 
their talents during their brief stay; it’s 
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1974 was a markedly inauspicious 
year for gay productions. On Jan 4th, 
we were treated to a deadly dull 
Coronation Ball; on Jan. 5th, we got a 
sleazy, tasteless benefit. 1975 is off to a 
bad start. 

There are many highly talented gay 
performers in San Francisco. Un¬ 
fortunately, there is a dire lack of 
talented directors, and actors do need 
directors. It is unfair to blame per¬ 
formers for doing what they’re told; in 
Feather & Leather Follies, you can only 
wish that several of the cast had 
bothered to learn the words to their 
pantomime numbers. Director Vern 
Becker obviously became enamored of 
the cast album of Let My People Come 
and used it as the exclusive basis for the 
local material in the show. Let My 



Director Vern Becker 


People Come is the show that has been 
running in New York for over eight 
months and has never officially opened 
because the producers know the N.Y. 
critics would tear it to shreds for its 
vulgarity. But what makes the show 
work is that it has a theme of liberated 
sexuality and a wholesome jubilant cast 
that do not try to be dirty, they play 
against it so that the vulgarity seems 
natural and not there for shock value. 
To take six numbers out of context and 
open a benefit for a deserving organi¬ 
zation by having ten people suddenly 
come out and shout “Let’s hear it for 
pussy and cock!” is shock value. It 
makes no statement, it simply stuns. 
But so what? We’re all adults, we’ve 
heard the words before, and the music 
to People is exceedingly first-rate. A 
takeoff on porno stars is a hilarious 
piece of material if not thrown away by 
the performer, and Vm Gay sung (or 
rather, mimed) by Mark Barrett and 
Leslie Michaels can stand on its own 
when the lyrics are not muddied by a 
foggy sound system. 

But to have Jamie St. James come 
out in a rhinestone bra and G-string and 
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Mouth while a girl (?) “goes down” on a 
guy with an erection behind a scrim 
scores a new low in tastelessness. 
Suggestion is one thing, blatant ob¬ 
scenity is another. If Mr. Becker had 
seen the original, he would have 
known that Come in My Mouth (the 
worst number in the score, incidentally) 
is done by a Marlene Dietrich type as a 
torchy ballad, partially negating the 
effect of the lyrics. Heaping dirt upon 
dirt only results in one thing - a bigger 
dungheap. It is sincerely a pity that after 
Montezuma showed how pantomime 
should be done at its best in a lovely 
number, Take Me Home With You, 
that Follies had to resort to a 
peek-a-boo porno as a substitute for 
talent and wind the show up in a blaze 
of smut, but perfectly in keeping with 
the revolting narration written by what 
sounded like a dirty-minded eight year 
old for the fashion show presented by 
Leather ‘N Things. 

The finale was a choice selection 
entitled Dirty Words and anything they 
may have missed previously was in this 
number, a play on so-called “taboo” 
sexual expressions. But that’s what 
Feather & Leather Follies turned into — 
a dirty word. 

I was not shocked; I was offended. 
Offended that gay creativity has sunk to 
this, so you will pardon me if I could not 
enter enthusiastically into the cast and 
audience joining hands and singing, 
United we stand, divided we fall. If the 
San Francisco segment of Feather & 
Leather Follies was a sample of gay 
awareness, open the closet door wide, 
Mother, I’m going back!! 

Glitter and the Gay 


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ONCE AGAIN! 



Esther & Fernando celebrate her 
triumphal return. 


Dec. 26th — Esther Williams, 
M.G.M. swimming star of the Fifties, 


was arrested and jailed for drunken 
driving while en route from Camarillo to 
Santa Barhara. Husband Fernando 
Lamas bailed her out for a belated 
Christmas present. Camarillo is the 
home of the Women’s State Prison, 
which makes one wonder if Miss 
Williams was spending the holidays with 
friends? But isn’t it nice to know that 
Esther Williams, who retired at the peak 
of her watery career, is still a star in the 
tank! 

JANUARY OPENINGS: 

Tue$., Jan. 7th - Esther Phillips 
brings her sensual stylings to the 
BOARDING HOUSE, along with the 
comedy of Franklyn Ajaye thru the 
19th. On the 21st, the earthy Odetta 
opens thru the 26th. 441-4333. 

Wed., Jan. 8th - Arthur Kopit’s 
Indians opens tonight at the OPEN 
THEATER, 441 Clement St.; a com¬ 
bination of Wild West show, vaudeville 
and circus that plays Thurs. thru Sat. 
nights at 8:30. 386-7312. 

Fri., Jan. 10th - Rodgers & Hart’s 
The Boys from Syracuse opens tonight 
thru Feb. 2nd Fri. thru Sun. nights at 
the EUREKA THEATRE, 16th & 
Market. One of the best of the 30’s 
musicals; Fri. & Sat. at 8:30, Sun. at 8. 
863-9026. And opening in March, the 



Mary-Cleere Haran will play The 
Courtesan in Rodgers & Hart’s “Boys from 
Syracuse.” 

Eurkea will present the all-female 
version of The Women, auditions to be 
held shortly. 

Fri., Jan. 10th - Paul Claudel’s 
The Passing of Noon opens at LONE 
MOUNTAIN THEATER, 2800 Turk St. 
at 8:30. Show will play Thrus. thru 
Sun. evenings. 

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Joseph Whipp as Sitting Bull and Will 
Marchetti as Buffalo Bill in “Indians,” now 
playing at the OPEN THEATER. 


Photo by Ron Scherl 
Old Times plays thru Feb. 15th at the 
SAN FRANCISCO POVERTY THE¬ 
ATRE Fri. & Sat. nights only at 8:30. 
Located at 2940 16th St., 626-0343 for 
reservations. 

Tues. Jan. 14th - Taming of the 
Shrew re-joins the A.C.T. repertory 
tonight at 8:30, Geary Theater. 

Wed. Jan. 15th — Lori Shannon 
opens tonight at FINOCCHIO’S Wed. 
thru Sun., 4 shows nightly from 9 P.M. 
on. 

Fri. Jan. 17th - The Mighty 
Spread Eagle, a musical parody of 
pornography, opens tonight at the 
CLEARING HOUSE FELLOWSHIP 
CHURCH, 2041 Larkin, at 8 & 10 
P.M. weekends only thru Jan. 26th. 
$2.50 admission. Rated “PG.” 

Sat., Jan. 18th - Michelle’s 20th 
Anniversary Celebration, 8:30, 
Sheraton Palace Hotel, 421-8034 for 
tickets. Repeated again Sun. the 19th. 

Thurs., Jan. 23rd - Miss Peggy 
Lee opens tonight for 10 days in the 


VENETIAN ROOM at 9:30 and 
Midnight. 362-8800 for reservations. 

Jan. 25th - Marilyn Horne will sing 
selections with the San Jose Symphony 
at 8:30 one night only at the Opera 
House - Miss Horne will sing selections 
from Mignon, Mahler’s Songs of the 
Wayfarer and My Heart at Thy Sweet 
Voice; the orchestra will offer 
Schubert’s Fifth Symphony and 3 
scenes from The Damnation of Faust. 

Wed. Jan. 26th - The U.S. Figure 
Skating Championships will be held 
from 7 AM til 5 PM, then 7 PM until 11 
PM at the OAKLAND COLISEUM 
ARENA today thru Feb. 1st. 635-7800 
for ticket information. 

NEW YORK OPENING 

And if you’re wondering how 
Charles Pierce fared Christmas Day 
when he opened in New York at the 
Top of the Gate, a concise report - 3 
standing ovations, sold out thru Jan¬ 
uary, and Ethel Smith (yes, the original 
Tico Tico girl) laid enough eggs to serve 
omelettes for a month. The new toast of 
New York is a male actress. 
PENTHOUSE FOLDS -- NOT 
SHAKE PROOF! 

JACKSON’S PENTHOUSE, the 
best showroom entertainment-wise of 
‘74, was abruptly closed prior to Dede 
Warwick’s opening. Seems the building 
inspector came in and demanded the 
room be brought up to “earthquake 
standards” (only in California!), the 
cost of which was prohibitive. But don’t 
be surprised if they open a new room in 
another location in a couple of months. 
A GALA FAREWELL 

Beach Blanket Babylon closed 
New Year’s Eve to a jam-packed 
audience (300 turned away at the door) 
who screamed and roared their ap¬ 
proval of the special farewell show, 
Nancy Bleiweiss appearing as Margaret 
Hamilton’s Bad Witch instead of Billie 
Burke’s Good Witch, with water being 


thrown on her at the end of the spot and 
her melting into the floor (no mean 
trick). 'The crowd stood and cheered 
throughout the final ten minutes of the 
show; they stood again for the midnight 
quickie revue, this time by necessity. All 
the seats were gone. OLYMPUS now 
closed until Jan. 10th, when it re-opens 
as a discoteque. 

Hitting some other spots New 
Year’s Eve, I cracked up in front of the 
NICKELODEON when an older queen 
walked past some young not-too-pretty 
drag hookers and said, “In my day, we 
had faces!!” Wanted to say hello to Gary 
Schneider and David Kelsey at the 
WINDJAMMER, so at 1 A.M. we 
stopped in and were told at the door 
there was still a $4.00 cover charge. 
Rather expensive for the, thirty re¬ 
maining mion minutes, so Gary and 
David, Happy New Year! 

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? 

If you hark back to five years ago at 
The Fantasy, you remember Jamie 
James and Froggie. Well, word comes 
that Jamie and Froggie opened their 
Frisco Follies for a 6 weeks at 
HARRAH’S South Shore Room in 
Lake Tahoe Mon. thru Thurs. nights on 
Jan. 6th. A pantomime drag show at 
Harrah’s? That’s right; another first. 

Big Jimmy now working in Fair¬ 
banks, Alaska. He was booked for a 
one-nighter, but nobody told him the 
nights are 6 months long in Alaska. 

Pat Montclaire, Terry Taylor & 
Bryan Marshall now touring the East 
Coast, playing Jan. in Toronto, 
Canada. 


Steve Miller & Michael Daley now 
gone from FINOCCHIO’S; Jackie 
Phillips temporarily out for minor 



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With all the pomp and ceremony 
accorded an outgoing Empress, our 
beloved Frieda IX took her last 
promenade as the reigning Empress 
de San Francisco last Saturday night at 
the Sheraton Palace. Courts from the 
entire west coast were in attendance as 
the rich, vibrant voice of Tom Moriarty 
thundered out the names of visiting 
royalty. The scene was chaotic, to say 
the least, but somehow it all got 
together and shortly after midnight, it 
was revealed to the hushed audience, 
that the freckle-faced, gal-next-door 
type, Doris, will reign as the 10th 
Empress de San Francisco. Pande¬ 
monium broke out within the staid 
Grand Ballroom of the Palace as the 
crown was placed on the head of the 
new Monarch and jubliation continued 
throughout the weekend. Her first 
proclamation was the name the other 
candidates Princesses in her court. The 
next morning at the *P.S. Restaurant, 
another hectic scene ensued. Bob Ross 
fed over 700 people between 11:00 AM 
and 4:00 PM with a buffet that drew 
laudatory comments throughout the 
day. Over 10 gallons of bloody mary 
mix were consumed, along with lobster, 
oysters, beef, fruit and champagne 
corks popped in statto-like rapidity, 
seemingly in unison with the flashbulbs 


of hundreds of cameras. Over at the 
Purple Pickle, Chef Schatzi laid out 
an equally sumptuous buffet, while 
Rose, 1,2,3V2 supervised with in¬ 
scrutable serenity. At the 1001 
Nights, a lavish brunch was served, 
with Dowager Empress Jose camping it 
up as only Jose can do it, roller skates 
and all. Throughout the empire, toasts 
were raised to Doris and later on that 
night, Emperor Bob Cramer’s Leather 
& Feather Follies was well attended in 
honor of the Pride Foundation and for 
their benefit. It was Coronation Week¬ 
end in San Francisco. To Empress 
Doris, good luck, may your reign be 
filled with camp, humor, fun and love! 

☆ ☆ ☆ 

MY FIRST EXCLUSIVE for this 
issue is that SF’s own PEARL has been 
signed to star in the 20th Century Fox 
production of Buried Alive, Janis v 
Joplin’s life story, and will start filming 
almost immediately in Jolly-Wood. 
Pearl will play himself and his voice will 
used throughout the film. The movie is 
being produced by Marvin Worth whose 
latest, Lenny, is breaking box office 
records throughout the country. The 
film will star Patty Duke in the title role. 
With an album of the soundtrack to be 
released later, you can rest assured that 
our Pearl has “made it” to the tune of at 
least six digits preceded by a dollar sign 
and those of you who followed Pearl at 
the Stud and last year’s Circus Circus 
can say, “I knew him when...” - 
copgratluations! 

☆ ☆ ☆ 

The latest southern scandal in¬ 
volves the bikers in our community. 
While the fledgling GDI Club has had 
its share of ups and downs, the 
membership total still manages to hover 
between 30 and 45; meanwhile, six 
former GDI members have formed a 
new bike club to be known as the BSSF 
M/C. The club will boast 75% bikers, 


and 25% bike licensees with a few 
supportive members. The nucleus of 
the new club stands at six persons - all 
with bikes - and the meaning of BSSF 
will be revealed at a later date soon. Our 
sincere best wishes to the new club and 
good luck to all prospective members. 
☆ ☆ ☆ 

CAMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE: 

Two hottest new faces behind the bar 
at the No Name belong to Warren 
Thomas and Todd Morrow, a great¬ 
looking team to back up on Ron’s staff 
of Teddy, Mario and What’s His 
Name.. .Yet another new fetish group in 
our midst, the Pacific Drill Patrol, and 
their bag is cops, so if you’re into that 
trip, join the festivities...The mellowest 
bar on New Year’s Eve was The 
Ambush. There was absolutely no 
pushing, shoving, spilling or screaming - 
just mellow folk spending a mellow 
evening presided over by the affable 
Ken Ferguson and David Lay, tapes by 
Dennis Lang, and many mellow men 
just doing their trip - the Ambush is a 
stunning bar....I hope the Olympus 
gets their act together soon and brings 
back Beach Blanket Babylon - the best 
show this town has seen in many a 
moon and does herald the approach of 
bi-sexual entertainment soon to be the 
IN thing...And speaking of shows, our 
own Lori Shannon, High Queen of 
Camp, will soon be appearing at 
Finocchio’s and that’s hot too...Bob 
Pinsonneault, the Man of the Aroma, is 
back in town after a restful vacation in 
Montreal and looking trim, slim, neat 
and, of course, HOT, as ususaL.Just 
got another flash that Generalissimo 
Nick of those two sixth street toilets that 
end in UP, but are definitely DOWN¬ 
ERS, has fired Richard Novak, so 
the wedding of the year (which means 
hundreds of dollars to ANY bar hosting 
it) will be held somewhere else - watch 
for announcements for the Novak/ 
Leetzow re-union wedding.. .When Sir/ 
Lady Avon (dowager) encountered 
Tacky Angel Randy in the tearoom of 
one of our local porno houses, his 
instant defense was: “Theese is the fairst 
time I been comin to theese place, and I 
have to run into jew!” and there were 
staring at each other through the city’s 
biggest glory hole...Yeah, Avon, I 
remember the first time I cruised the 
Embarcadero YMCA - I didn’t realize 
it but I was meeting my future bar 
boss...The ACME BEER MAN Bus 
which went to Sacramento last Friday 
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and Mike and Leo Grenier (Grenier 
liquors) were just THE perfect hosts. It 
was a fun trip and dinner at the 
Hawaiian Hut and the festivities at the 
Play Pen later were fun. Be sure to 
attend the Acme Beer Man Contest at 
California Hall on Friday, January 31st 
- tickets are only $2.00 and one sale by 
EVERYONE. We love you Acme Beer - 
it IS a benefit for SIR!... two young 
dudes walked into a Polk Street 
restaurant the other day and ordered a 
bottle of wine with their dinner which 
they thought was $4.00. You can 
imagine their chagrin when the check 
came to over $100 - they overlooked 
the price of the wine which was, in fact, 
$84.00 - embarrassed moment of the 
year award to those two, whoever they 
maybe. P.S. - they did pay the balance 
the next day...Be sure to get your 
tickets for Michelle at the Palace on Jan 
18 and 19 -* this one will be GREAT - 
with Mike (Mr. Wonderful) Lewis of the 
Neli Deli in the show, it HAS to be 
great...The Milky Way will be at Mr. 
Marcus’ Macho Matinee at the Boot 
Camp on Sat., January 18th to plan a 
big Cowboy Jamboree for Our Mr. 
Cowboy Bill Tolan to be held later on 
this year - be there or be square....And 
now comes some bad news about a 
situation I never thought would exist in 
San Francisco. Marvin the Mailman on 
Polk Street is only 52 years of age - he is 
a mellow kid, kind, friendly person and 
a groovey dude. For 11 years he has 
patronized one of our local bath houses. 
Would you believe our Marvin is no 
longer admitted to at least two of our 
“leading” steam shops? When a man of 
66 years died the other night in one of 
our tubs why is Marvin being singled out 
and refused entry in that same 
establishment? This is NOT Los Angeles 
where you’re not admitted if you’re over 
35. Let’s quit discriminating against our 
gay brothers and sisters! If you don’t 
want to make it with an older person, 
you don’t have to. Personally, quite a 
few chickens prefer older men, so let’s 
quit being a CREEP Mr. Z....The new 
chairman of Operation Concern, Ron 
Von Gay, has come up with a fund 
raiser for this year and the new 
Empress, Doris, will be the target. Start 
trying to figure out how many freckles 
Empress Doris has on his entire body - 
that should bring in some coin and good 
luck to the guessers - only Doris’ 
masseur knows and he ain’t telling... 
Seen on a SofM tearoom wall: “We 
love you Mr. Cowboy Bill - you fight for 
us”...and speaking of fighting, Miss 


Cowgirl, Mama Peck, is in the hospital 
and we hope she’s up and about REAL 
SOON for Bill’s birthday on the 
11th. .Congratulations to Richard 
Novak! He is a father. His dog, Desiree, 
just had two pups and they are a boy 
and a girl...The final appearance of the 
Mr. Acme Beer Man contestants will be 
at the Boot Camp on Thursday, 
January 16th be aware and be 
there...Yeah, Randy Johnson, you did 
a good job at the Leather & Feather 
Follies - what an M.C.!...Don’t forget 
the HOOKERS BALL on January 25th 
at the Bellevue Hotel and of course, 
this Saturday, the new Mr. and Miss 
Gay San Francisco will be elected... 
Hottest man in town this week is Frank 
Pimento of Hayward - only the vital 
statistics remain a secret to protect the 
protagonists....Mark Calhoun will host 
the 5th Anniversary of the Round Up 
starting January 20th for a big 
week...Congratulations to the new 
Royal Baby, Tony. (I can’t spell his last 
name) elected at the Hangover Brunch 
at SIR on New Year’s Day...Didn’t 
Patsy, Miss Gay Calif, look HOT at the 
Coronation Ball? Ditto Mavis; Ditto 
Lorelei; Ditto La Kish; Ditto Victoria 
Schilling of Portland; Ditto Empress 
Della of Seattle; ditto Tacky Ruth; Ditto 


Danny LaFrance; Ditto Dowager Sir/ 
Lady Avon; Ditto Ronnie Bandoni and 
Mrs. Bandoni; Ditto Don Berry; Ditto 
Empress Maxine; Ditto Empress Reba; 
Ditto Sir Lawrence (with Maxine); Ditto 
Bob Kerns; Ditto Emperor Bob Cramer; 
Ditto Larry Eppinette; Ditto Groovy 
Guy Ralph Gibson;ditto, ditto, ditto ad 
infinitum. 

☆ ☆ ☆ 

Thqt winds it up for another two 
weeks; Cooperate. Tolerate. Partici¬ 
pate. Your life is what YOU make it. 
Congratulations to our new Empress 
Doris. 

P.S. La Kish, you peeeeeeeed honey. 


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BAR EVENTS & NEWS 

Congratulations to Doris...Empress X 
de San Francisco...you were absolutely 
divine at the Coronation Ball, Doris...a 
twenty-eight foot train isn’t really too 
much is it.. .but good luck on your reign. 

What do we do now Mike 
Dooley... 

Elsa and her Court and all of the 
Portland Royalty peed (ask Lips for 
translation - Ed.) upon their entrance... 
a beautiful salute to the city and people 
of San Francisco from some of the most 
beautiful people of Portland.. .Sorry you 
didn’t make it down here Jim T., but 
remember you were in my thoughts.. .as 
always. 

Happy belated birthday greetings 
to Bill Tolan.. .Mr. Cowboy.. .heard that 
your party at the 527 Club was a great 
success...sorry I missed it. 

Don’t you think that Empress X 
Doris and Emperor Bob Cramer make a 
lovely couple...a great team to rep¬ 


resent our great city. 

The Feather and Leather Follies at 
Bimbo’s on Sunday nite was a smashing 
success...again the Cable Car Court of 
Emperor 3 Bob Cramer did a great job 
for the Pride Foundation...Fern, how 
come you didn’t see any of the 
show...was the bar too far away from 
your table? 

You can see the Cinemattachine 

Newsreel of the Coronation of Empress 
X Doris, now at the Seven Com¬ 
mittee, next to the Adonis Book 

Store, 384 Ellis St.don’t miss it or 

the fun times you can have at 
Cinemattachine.... 

The ‘Doris Thanks You Brunch’ at 
the *P.S. was one of the most lavish 
buffet tables that this community has 
ever seen.. .Bob Ross, Bette Bonko and 
the entire *P.S. staff should be 
complimented for such a beautiful 
job...and the food never stopped 
coming out of the kitchen...and such 
lovely people that attended...besides, 
the fun and frivolity that went on $1.00 
of .the brunch charge was donated to the 
S.F.T.G. Foundation Building Fund... 
then the *P.S. built a stage in the main 
dining room and the Dizzy Dais y Revue 
was presented, directed by Chuck 
Zinn and starring Irene and the 


‘Boys’...a fantastic show...and a great 
afternoon. 

The Yonkers Production Company 
Inc. Cordially invites you to attend the 
Twentieth Anniversary Celebration of 
‘Michelle Plays the Palace’ on Saturday 
and Sunday, the 18th and 19th of 
January...at 8:30...this is going to be 
the ‘Biggie’ of the season, so don’t miss 
it...call the Kokpit, The Mint or the 
Twin Peaks for ticket information... 

Seems as if ‘Miss Mo’ of Sutters 
Mill fame was (visiting) Lands End last 
week and ran into an old (?) friend who 
was looking for Miss Mo to present him 
with a gorgeous shirt as a Christmas 
Gift...a funny place to get a gift, isn’t it 
Miss Mo.? 

Thank you Danny Hepburn, star 
bowler of the Kokpit’s Bowling Team, 
for your help on New Year’s Eve...at 
least you wanted to help...but...keep 
up the good work in the Bowling Alley 
so that we can win the title... 

A great birthday party for ‘The 
Duchess,’ the real one, at the Kokpit 
last Friday, especially with that Mad 
Mad Marne of Portland in attendance, 
as well as Russ, Vannessa and Sam and 
Gene of Dahl & Penne in Portland... 
great canapes were served, made by 
Skippy of Jackson’s... fabulous. 

Happy Birthday to Irene....but 
what year, honey?....a great party at 
the Pendulum for her on Thursday 
nite...loved you in the show last 
Sunday....Peter Switzer has started 
organizing the Softball League Teams... 
Mike Dooley is the Captain of the 
Kokpit’s team....so watch out gang. 

Remember, Doris X de San 
Francisco, is the Softball League 
Sweetheart...Vote for...Bob Paulson... 
for Mr. Acme Beer...another P.P.M 
nominee...and a wonderful guy. 

Thank you Darcelle and Rock of 
Portland, just for being Darcelle and 
Rock...heaven people. 

Remember...spread a little love in 
your life, and you’ll be happier and 
better person for it...thank you. 

Welcome Home Daddy Joe, of the 
Gangway... we missed you. 

Love and Kisses to all, especially 
you Jim T. of Portland, 
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by Rick Nielsen 

LOOKING BACK AT 1974 

The following express my opinions 
for the year 1974 — a year of price 
increases, food shortages, Nixon’s 
resignation and more. 

Biggest pain of the year: The terrible 
price increases in rents, food and just 
about everything. The poor people will 
suffer more and the middle income 
people will have to hancj out more in 
taxes (which in turn will hurt them, too). 
The governments of the world must end 
the problems that are causing price 
increases or else the people will fight 
back either in riots or boycotts. 

Biggest scandal of the year: New 
Jersey seems to be *1 in child abuses. 
So many children have been beaten or 
killed by parents or people in that state 
in 1974 that laws must be passed to 
protect the young once and for all. 
Biggest non-news gay story: The 
hustlers that continue to rip off gay 
people in New York City and how the 
papers make it look like the gay is the 
bad one, when many times it is the 
hustler who leads a guy on, takes his 
money and too many times robs him ot 
beats him up. 

Biggest sin of the year: That sexual 
rights (and this includes the rights of 
homosexuals) is still not law in New 
York State. It is my hope that 1975 be a 
year <^f awakening for those law makers 
who refuse to give citizens sexual rights. 
Biggest shame of the year: The 
Democratic Congress who did very little 
this year as far as the nation is 
concerned. Sure, Nixon resigned and 
maybe that was good, considering the 
facts, but the whole Watergate thing 
took too long and in my opinion egos 
ran too high. Nixon, a Republican, was 
guilty of foolish acts and his aids played 
too many games with the people, but 
the Democrats should have resolved the 
hearings pertaining to the coverup and 
Watergate long before they did. 

Best movie of the year: Here I have a 
tie. Earthquake was just great and the 
Trial of Billy Jack was unbeatable. 

Best comeback of the year: The 
many songs of the 1950s Rock and roll 
period. This was a year where top 
singers recorded the hits of the Fifties 
and made them popular all over again. 
Fastest fade out of the year: Score 
Newspaper of the Midwest. This fine 


gay newspaper had a lot going for it, but 
after one issue it died. 

Favorite physique studio of ’74: 

Again, Colt Studios . . . this fine studio 
never seems to go backwards, only 
ahead. 

Some of the most popular faces of 
the year: has to be Bruno of Colt 

Studios. Also we had Eddie Zemietra of 
Legend Gallery, Ronny of Atlantis 
Studios, the people who hang out at 
Brothers and Sisters (the famous gay 
nightclub), Philip Cruz of Legend 
Boutique, Aldo Vigliarolo, who directed 
Odets Look Again, and Linda Gerard, 
the singer. 

Biggest honestly of the year: Boston 
for allowing sex shops to operate freely 
under the law. This is great, because in 
that city one who wants porno can now 
buy it with out fear and the store owners 
also can operate without fear of police 
busts. 

My favorite bar of the year: The 

Hollywood, located in the mid-forties, 
NYC. Lots of people and lots of Rock 
music to keep you dancing all night. 
Unexpected news story of the year: 
When actor George Maharis got caught 
in the mens room with a male 
hairdresser. 

Saddest news story of the year: The 

death of singer Mama Cass in England. 



Bruno of COLT Studio in New York. 

I guess there is more events that I 
could mention, but however, this is a 
column ... it would fill a book if one 
had to list everything. 1 do wish each of 
you a Happy 1975 and I ask that you all 
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Portland - Mama Bernice has been 
very ill these last two months, her poor 
legs can’t hold her any longer. The 
northwest communities of Vancouver, 
Canada, Seattle and Portland, have set 
up fund drives to help her out; money is 
coming in, but I know we could do 
more; please help Mama, she has done 
so many things for us all. Darcelle’s 
Special, the annual trip via train, will be 
loaded this year. Empress Elsa has 
some nice surprises instore, so don’t 
miss the shoo-shoo. 

Seattle - Thanks to Oly I, Scotty, we 
have a few words about the candidates 
for Oly II and Rainier I. Dearly beloved, 
we are gathered here for one specific 
reason. Seattle is going to hit the 
absolute top of the universe. Oly and 
Rainier, (Empress & Emperor) my, my, 
it sounds like a beer bust; far from it. 
Seattle has by far the finest ballroom on 
the west coast, it’s brand new, but 
fantastic. 

Candidates for Emperor. - Bill, his 
theme is Cruise Along in 75 and he 
means it - he has been there and back, 
and promises to do a fantastic job - a 
lawyer by trade, he knows the ins and 
out’s of most legal nasties, so you realize 
even his ex-wife still likes him. Lance, 
by day and Emperor by Knight is right in 
there running with the best of them. He 
has turned para-professional since 
leaving his job as a popular bartender in 
one of Seattle’s hot spots - best of luck 
Lancelot. Then we have Monty, good 
old sweet cakes - we all know Monty, 
he’s renowned for his years of hard 
work for his Seattle. Experience he has, 
all he does is make friends for Seattle. 
Michael is in there - he has thrown his 
hat in the ring and no one had better 
step on the brim - from what I hear, 
there is no stopping him now. 

Now we get to the nitty gritty. 
There are some nifty numbers running 
for Oly IV - remember when we used to 
save Olympia Beer labels with • • • • 
four dots? 

Dominique, by far the prettiest 
thing this side of heaven. What more 
can I say. Galloping right on her heels is 
Marvina (Fire Pussy), better known as 
Julie, who was the head of the Amon’s 
for so many years. If experience counts, 

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Chuck, working her (expletive deleted) 


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posterior off, well known to all of us. I 
think he’s the youngest candidate and 
don’t like ‘em, forget it. With wings a 
flutter, Nickie Jean floats back on the 
scene, please sing me a melody. I can 
remember Nickie when she made the 
scene in Seattle, when we both were 
kids, remember Jama Phi? Now lets 
dwell on Mae Eash, Seattle’s resident 
clown. Tommy is willing to do anything 
to make people smile. God bless him for 
all he has done to make Seattle laugh. 
Last but not least is Terry - call her (or 
him), depending on how well you know 
him - a worker from the word go. 

Empress Scotty, Della and Lola 
have done one hell of a job. Their hard 
work will never be forgotten and their 
promise to continue to help the next 
Emperor and Empress proves their 
dedication. 

Vancouver, B.C., Canada - Thank 
you Kenny K. Y. for your fund drive for 
Mama Bernice and thank you Monty for 
your help in Seattle; Mama loves you 
all. 


Cala, Indeed 


The Castro area is known for many 
things...bars, restaurants, shops, flor¬ 
ists, paranoid mothers clutching their 
little boy’s hand.. .and Cala supermarket 
on 18th & Collingwood. 

80% of the clientele, it seems, is 
your basic Midnight Sun/Frog Palace 
(Toad Hall) type...deteriorating levis, 
butch jacket, etc. The rest are usually 
old ladies or two Ms. types looking 
frustrated because there are so many 
men around...looking at other men, 
and not them. 

This Cala is the only store I know of 
where Playgirl is bought up within 2 
hours of its initial display, while Time, 
Playboy, et al., are still hanging around 
the next week. 

It’s one thing to say “I met my true 
love over the mushrooms...’’the same 
thing happens at Safeway at Church & 
Market, every day. The thing which is 
different, is the personnel at Cala. 
Once while checking out, there was this 
Ms. Checkoutperson, with red hair, 
outrageous lipstick and Cala uniform. I 
said “Two packs of Camels, please.” To 
which she replied, “...Ahhh....we don’t 
allow that here sir.” Stunned for 15 
seconds, I retorted, “You’ll get yours.” 
She said, “I’ve already had it.” And 
smiled sweetly. You don’t get that at 
Safeway. 

Granted, Castro isn’t Polk St., let 
alone Folsom, but there is diversity...I 
mean Thomas Edwards and Harvey 
Milk within two blocks of each other; 


one against Jesus and the Jesuits, the 
other simply against Nixon and his 
ilk.. .but that’s why we have the Brand S 

paper and B.A.R.17th century 

France had the Jansenists and the 
Jesuits ...Rouge et Noir and I don’t 
mean cheese. 

The weather in Castro is nicer than 
in the Marina and it’s fairly mellow away 
from the busy two block area. The rents 
used to be cheap, then came BART & 
the Muni tunnel. True, the crowds 
resemble Polk on a weekend p.m. and 
the area in front of the Frog Palace gets 
more congested than necessary. But 
where else, when you move into a new 


flat, the 70 year old landlady says: “No 
dope in the back yeard, my son’s a 
narc.” 

Good old Castro....graduates of 
Santa Clara are anti-Jesuit (don’t blame 
them), Semites sell their markets to 
Arabs, old ladies get a hoot out of 
standing in front of the BofA, watching 
all the folk wander by: “It’s better than 
watching TV and safer than going down 
to the Emporium,” and a there’s a 
mouse there who writes.... 

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The stock market closed the -year 
with some heavy losses. All the 
computer runs listed the stocks that did 
the poorest and those that did the best 
for the year. More important to the 
future of the economy, is how well did 
the major companies do? For these 
companies are the ones which are the 
backbone of the economy and their 
outlook will give a better indication of 
the future. The worst performers on the 
major exchanges were the real estate 
investment trusts. But, when IBM and 
AT&T each loses almost $25 billion in 
its market value in one year, we have to 
take note. That effects all the institu¬ 
tions, widows and retired people who 
hold these stocks in their “growth” 
portfolios. 

The most widely followed stock 
averages were off some 27%-35% for 
the year. Kodak was off 46%...Xerox 
off 58%...Avon 55%...Penny 50%... 
DuPont 42% and Coke 58 %! the losses 
were spread across industries. 


This battering of the top-tier stocks 
puts the market in an interesting 
position for the investor and business- 
person. The government has to take 
steps to straighten out the economy. It is 
a gamble. Recession on one side...in¬ 
flation on the other. Energy crunches... 
controls...cuts in some sectors of 
government spending.... increases in 
other. How can we know what to do if 
even the government doesn’t know 
what it is going to do. Thus, the 
government’s action will have a very 
hard effect upon the market. To try to 
call the direction would be to be able to 
guess what Ford will do, and the 
wearing of WIN buttons and sweaters 
just is not enough. 

Since the market can react in only 
one of two ways, the investor either has 
to have strong feelings or he has to sit it 
out until a trend can be seen and give 
up the first moves in the market. The 
trader on the other hand should be 
picking up 6 month or 1 year options. If 
the trader has a feel for the direction of 
the market, he should limit himself to 
either puts or calls. From here on, the 
West Coast one year calls seem like one 
of the best bets at this time. 

All this affects the businessperson, 
as well as the investor. If you feel that a 


depression or a heavier recession will 
take place, then you should hold off the 
purchasing of new goods. However, if 
you think that the government will take 
strong steps to cut the recession and 
allow inflation to continue, as the lesser 
of the two evils, then you should start to 
build up low inventories at today’s 
prices and maybe even go into debt and 
pay it off with cheaper dollars. 

Not being a national election year, 
the government might just take some 
politically unfavorable, but necessary 
steps to solve the economic problems, 
so that by 1976, all will be on a better 
road. If that is the case, then those who 
have been sitting on cash might be wise 
to start to re-enter the market at this 
time. 

Acceptance House 
Raffle Winners 


First Prize: A one-week Hawaiian 
Holiday for two. 

Tom Kimson (Lou Green to share) 
350 Laguna 

☆ ☆ 

Second Prize: Portable Color TV 

Bruce Bradbury 
2535 Polk St. 

☆ ☆ 

Third Prize: Polaroid SX-70 Camera 

David Jaramillo 
995 Pine St. 

☆ ☆ 


Love Eludes Me 
Love eludes me. 

It embraces me with gentle words and 
vibrant sex. 

But it eludes me. 

Sometime concern from someone. 

Oh. To know one. 

It eludes me. 

One day of infinite minutes, 

I touched back. 

I held space suspended. 

Was the weight worth the wait? 

It left me. 

Once again, unburdened, I persue the 
elusive. 

☆ ☆ 

Bob Matthews 

















Prince Charming 
was a Rapist!! 

by Donald McLean 

English sociologists Peter and Iona 
Opie have written a new book entitled 
The Classic Fairy Tales, published by 
the Oxford University Press, that offers 
their contention that our most beloved 
fairy tales that we grew up with as 
children were really written for adults 
originally and were romanticized in the 
19th Century to avoid shocking 
mid-Victorian parents. 

It was the 19th Century authors 
who came up with the version that 
Sleeping Beauty was awaked by a kiss 
from Prince Charming. In the original 
17th Century version, the Opies 
contend, Sleeping Beauty slept right 
through the Prince’s kiss... and the rape 
by the Prince that followed. She even 
slept through the birth of twins nine 
months later, until one of the babies 
accidentally sucked on her finger, 
drawing out the enchanted splinter that 
induced her lengthy sleep. And what a 
shock Sleeping Beauty got when she 
awoke! 

And if that isn’t shattering enough, 


the Opies go on to reveal that 
Cinderella was not the goody-goody 
Julie Andrews we think of today, but a 
scheming Italian bitch who plotted with 
her governess to murder her 
stepmother, and then persuaded her 
father to marry her governess. But it 
was all to no avail, because the 
governess’ daughters took her place 
and she was reduced to the scullery. 

The original fairy tales were crude 
and often brutal, according to Peter and 
Iona; Sleeping Beauty was preggers, 
Prince Charming was a rapist, 
Cinderella was a conniving schemer... 
and I don’t even want to discuss the 
Seven Dwarfs!!! ☆ 

An Island 
In The Sun 

If you are fed up to here with San 
Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, San 
Diego, Vancouver and Seattle. If the 
heat of Palm Springs and the fog of San 
Francisco or the cold rainy nights of 
Seattle make you sick, here’s an idea 
that might suit you fine as we go into the 
new year of 1975! 

For as little as $13,000 you can 
buy an island all your own and restrict it 
to your own friends or if you prefer, you 


can enjoy being a hermit and live on it 
all by yourself. 

Private Islands Unlimited is a bona 
fide agency under the direction of 
Donald Cameron. Ward, which has 
listed for sale, many such islands in the 
Atlantic and Pacific. There are a. variety 
of islands near Tahiti and some quite 
nearby the Bahamas. Some are a short 
distance from the United States. 

Owning such an island does not 
necessarily permit one to set up his own 
soverign government with complete 
jurisdiction and elegibility for admission 
into the United Nations. Every island is 
within claimed or nominal territory of 
one or another country or nation and is 
subject to their jurisdiction. 

For as little as $13,430, an 
individual can purchase Topihairi, an 
island in the Manihi Atoll, offering its 
residents-to-be, white sandy beaches, 
fresh ground water and coconut palms. 
The island covers 3.9 acres. 

Perhaps you would like North 
Bimini, just 50 miles east of Florida, and 
is 725 acres in size; however, this island 
is not for anyone on welfare, as it is 
listed at $3 million. 

For more and detailed information, 
write B.A.R., 1550 Howard St., San 
Francisco, Calif. 94103 



COSTUME BALM 
Old BroadwaWhe 
[ 1920 - 1930 ] 

Door Prizes, Gash Prizes, Dancing, Cruising 


9pm 


3546 FLORA V|$TA '{ 
(One block east of 

SA N JOSE'S NEWEST Lawrence ExpressWay on 
MEETING PLACE El Camino) 

244-6655 












B.4.R. (LdSS^ED 

FIND IT 

FIRST & FAST IN 
BAR 

CLASSIFIEDS 


MASSAGE BY JIM: 282-1266. E-4 


PROVOCATIVE MASSAGE BY 
GOOD LOOKING GUY WITH 
TALENTED HANDS. Your 
Pleasure is my satisfaction. Call 
LEE evenings at 824-5343. E-2 

MODEL/ESCORT/MASSEUR 
Dynamite bodybuilder - 23,6’ 
165#, 30” w., 44” chest, brn. 
hair/eyes, muse. Defined - 
Guaranteed. Your place only - 
leave message. BILL 441-1054 
__ E4 

Yng. kid just out of the Navy 
gives a complete body massage. 
GREGG 673-1764._E4 

HOWARD: $15. hr. 922-7772 
now._E-K) 

Slim and hot 5’9”, 140 lbs., will 
give total massage. $20. Out- 
calls only. Big Red. 552-3901. E-l 
EXPERT MASSEUR BLACK 
Downtown S.F. Anytime 

776-9972 E-2 



I always find my chubbies in 
B.A.R. Classifieds. 



MALE MODELS 18 to 24 YEARS. 
No long or facial hair please. 
One day work or longer for right 
person. No. exp. needed but 
models must be able to work 
under professional conditions. 
Call 441-6867 between 10 A.M. 
and 12 noon or call 928-1130 
after 7 P.M. If you are the 
person we are looking for.... 
models will start work the very 
next day. _E-4 

Good looking Man Friday for 
retail craft shop and household 
in Santa Cruz. Living & salary. 
408-335-5098. JIM._E-4 

10 people needed for flyer 
distribution at midnite Fri. & 
Sat. Good pay. Call Rudy 
648-4547. E-l 



Hunky dude, 5’8”, 150 lbs. Out 
calls only in . S.F. $20 total 
massage. Call JEFF 626-3550 


_E-l 

Clean-cut masc. guy delivers 
total massage to turn you on. A 
guaranteed delight anytime! 
RON: 28, 5’11”, 155 lbs. 

826-1076._£-2 

Complete expert massage by a 
pro. Licensed masseur. Muscu- 
lar. Lester. 771-5777 SF. E-7 
Let’s massage each other reg¬ 
ularly, often. Will teach. Legit. 
Box 668, S.F. 94101. O.K.?. E-2 



For Sale — Bar & Cocktail 
Lounge All or one-half interest 
to congenial partner. Located in 
Twin Peaks area — equipt. with 
facilities for serving light meals. 
Living quarters on premises. 
Plenty of parking space. Those 
interested phone 564-9501. E-l 
I Love You! Unusual new 
T-shirts make wonderful gift. 
Colors are gold or maroon. 
S-M-L-XL. Specify size/color 
and send $3.95 to JJ, 1247 - 25th 
Avenue, S.F., CA. 94122.e-l 



W/M, 28, 6’1”. 180lbs., green 
eyes brn. hair, goodlooking. 
Would like to meet younger guys 
for friendship and lover. Write 
to P.O. Box 705, H.M.B. or call 
Tony at (415) 726-4073 after 2 
P.M. to 7 P.M._E-l 

Dig wrestling with leather or 
levi stud. No pain. W/M, 40, 6 
ft., 170 gr. sex. versatile. Enjoy 
biking. Maury 441-3699. E-l 

W/M, 21, 5’8”, 138, would like 
to meet or write other guys not 
older than 40 for friendship or 
lover anywhere in Bay area. I 
don’t like bars and I love 
privacy. Photo if possible. 
Mario, P.O. Box 113, Saratoga, 
Calif. 95070 _E-l 

Bi guy, 30, seeks small hung 
guys to break me in. Will give 
oral or take in rear anytime. Am 
into lingerie and J.O. Am attr. 
with good body. Write Bx. 4096, 
Mt. View 94040._E-l 

Fist and Dildo lover. 

W/M, 29, 5’3” wants you! 

Cope, 647-8363. E-l 





































SLAVE WANTED - DOWN- 
TOWN S.F. Live-in possible with 
benevolent autocrat (57, 6’2’’, 
220). Phone 415-775-4806 any¬ 
time_ E-2 



Share SF house near Castro & 
BART, 11 rooms, all furnished. 
Washer, dryer, util., incl. Rent 
$150/mo. Call Mike at 282-8562. 
_ E-l 

SANTA CLARA. Share house. 
Three bedroom, two baths, 
$100. plus utilities. Responsible, 
employed male. George, 
984-7611. _E-l 

$125. Man to share 6 rm. Viet, 
flat, view, frpl, empl, Call 
861-2365. _E-l 

Share clean nice hse. on Russ. 
Hill, 2 bdrm., 2 frpl., big kitch & 
basmt., byard. Quiet side st. I’m 
W/M, 24, reliable, cooperative. 
Prefer 21-28, stable, clean, 
honest, employed. Bdrm. is 
unfurn. No heavy drugs & nelly 
freaks. $125 plus Vi util. Avail. 
Jan31.CaU TOM 771-6311. E-l 
MARIN. 2 empl/resp. guys 
w/shr. furn. 3 BR. view home 
w/same. Own BR. (waterbed, 
tv, desk, furn). Priv. pool, firepl. 
Parkg. No pets. Sec. dep. ned. 
$124 plus. 454- 4900. E-l 



Rooms with bath and refrig. 
$21.00 weekly. $84.00 monthly. 
Friendly atmosphere 885-9684. 
Padre Hotel, 241 Jones St., S.F. 

E-0 


$5.00 a day, $20.00 a week 
(including roommate or friend) 
puts you right in the center of 
S.F. action. Vi block from 
Greyhound Station & BART. 
Stay at a clean, comfortable 24 
hour service hotel. National 
Hotel, 1139 Market St. 864-9343. 
Gay management._ E-2 

Small Hotel com. kit. Clean 
$20/25 per week. 1075 Post - 
Polk. New Management. 

441-9591 ._E-9 

YOUNGMEN HOTELS - Two 
ood locations on Polk near 
utter and Ellis at Larkin. New 
furnishings in clean, bright 
rooms by the week or month. 
Our guest houses are exclusive¬ 
ly for men under 35 yrs. 
885-4399 or 648-9333. _ ErO 

LIVE ON POLK where the action 
is - between Buzzby’s and the 
..P.S. In the area’s only hotel 
exclusively for young men under 
35. Clean, redecorated rooms, 
with new furnishings from $18 
wk. 885-2696 or 885-4399. E-0 

Rooms with bath and refrig. 
$21.00 weekly. $84.00 monthly. 
Friendly atmosphere. 771-6079. 
Woodland Hotel, 473 Ellis St. SF 
_ E-0 

ROOMS FOR RENT 
527 Club 

397-2452 _E-0 

3-4 Bedroom, living rm., flat. 
New kitchen & bath. Nr. G.G. 
Pk. $375. 661-9795._E-l 

$435. Pacific Hts. So. 1882 
Victorian upper flat, appli¬ 
ances, modern baths, kitchen, 
double parlors, 2 fpls. Sep. 
dining room & bk. room. 3 
bdrms., deck, garden. Agt. no 
fee. 921-1116. E-l 

ROOMS FOR RENT 
664 Larkin Street 
$19-22 per week 

928-1499 after 4 P.M. _E-4 


2 bdrm. Victn. flat, W/W, drps., 
frplc., new bath, dspl., dish¬ 
washer. Pvt., clean, sunny, Dlx. 
$245. 824-7009._E-l 

For rent - unfurn. lg sunny. 5 
rm., fl., hdwd, fl., cent. ht. l.r. 
14x28. Dogs clean. $240. 415- 
931-8535._E-2 

Flat for rent - Potrero Hill - 5 
rooms/view/deck. $250. No pets 
826-6775. E-l 

Large 2-bdrm. upper flat. Unf. 
or furn. incl water & garbage. 
Close to downtown, Mtn. View, 
walk to S.P. depot. No pets - no 
children. Very charming and 
unusual. High ceilings, country 
kitchen, $200.00 unf. Eves, and 
weekends, call 968-0937. Avail 
Jan. 15,1975. _ E-l 

Gay Apts. - Studios & 1 Br. - 
Priv. baths, kitchens. Gym facil¬ 
ity, whirlpool & steamroom incl. 
$145 - $165. 851 O’Farrell. 
885-4446 or 474-0776. E-l 



GRANNY’S TRUCKERS 
If you have a trucking need 
RELAX 

Let Granny’s men do it 

Call RICK 861-1003 E-3 

BEAT TIGHT MONEY REPAIR 
Those old lamps/almost any 
lightng product can be repaired 
at reasonable prices, lamp 
parts. Bring this ad for a 10 per 
cent material discount. CHUCK 
& DAVE’S, 66 Sanchez St., SF. 
Tel 431-5622. E-2 

WE’LL TAKE YOUR LOAD! 

MOVING & HAULING 
Call 282-8085 E-2 


TRUCKIN’ WITH CHUCK! 

MOVING & HAULING 
CALL CHARLES 864-3563 

_E-0 

MOVING - HAULING - GARAGE 
cleaning. Rely on experience. 
Call Carl. 824-9508 or 431-3158. 
_ E-2 

INCOME TAX RETURNS* Cer¬ 
tified Public Accountant. 
788-1140. _E-A 

FOR MOVING AND HAULING 
CaU B & J’s 

621-1784 _E-4 

BUILDING - REMODELING 
Shingling - Minor elect. 

& Plumbing 

Experienced - Reasonable 
I’m JACK - TRY ME! 658-6576E-3 
GRANNY’S TRUCKERS 
A step ahead of the rest 
because we care 
For your trucking needs 
Call RICK 861-1003 7-days E-3 
Apt. or house cleaning - Monday 
thru Friday 9 to 5 - Rates upon 
request. Call Dan at 567-3341 or 
9156. _RO 

CAPRICORN STEAM CARPET 
Home or office. 931-3544. E-0 

GRANDMA’S HELPERS 
Painting, Housecleaning, 
building maintenance.552-0110. 

E-l 


MOVING 
NEED A HAND? 

Reasonable rates from $7/hr. to 
$20/hr. according to your need. 
Pickup & 3 ton covered U.P.S. 
van. Two years experience. 
282,-5843. _E-l 

Steam Bath - “Men Only’’ 
Groovy! Great sun deck. lg. pvt 
rooms. Open seven days a week 
- Special rate Sat. $3 all day. 
Call 325-9121. 1205 E. Bayshore, 
Red. E.P.A,_E-0 


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A NEW FACE FOR 
THE OLD LADY! 


new decor 

The experience of our impressive new dining area trimmed with 
natural woods, shingled walls and shutters creates a warm and 
relaxed atmosphere.The bar area, also with shingled walls,has 
intricate oak parquet floors, dramatic lighting and a varied 
collection of fine artwork. 


new cuisine 

Chef Bill Barr presents a continental cuisine including flambee 
entrees of Steak Diane and Scampi and flambee desserts of 
Cherries Jubilee and Bananas Foster. These entrees and desserts 
plus tossed salad are all prepared at your table. We now feature 
wines from Berringer,Charles Krug and selected French imports. 

live entertainment j j 

Starting in January we will be presenting j 

live entertainment weekly. Also coming pS|lB|^ ^ Jfi \ 

soon is our new piano bar with guest . ! 

artists. Call up for more details. l|§[ | Ip I 


135 12th STREET 
OAKLAND 
Phone 444-9966 


Hours: Lunch Mon. - Fri. 11:30-2:30pm. Dinner Tues.,Wed.,thurs.&Sun 
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526 Castro Street • San Francisco 94114 
863-9217 


w/2 web belts $28.00 extra belts $4.00 each* 
w/patent belt $32.00 extra belts $12.00 
both in black brown blue red white yellow 
w/ black & brown reversible leather belt $42.50 
*web belts also available in 25 other shades